Jackson Browne & Friends – Santa Barbara, CA (09/15/99)

Jackson Browne
Bonnie Raitt
Shawn Colvin
Bruce Hornsby
David Lindley & Wally Ingram
9/15/99
Santa Barbara County Bowl
Santa Barbara, CA

Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV100 >Sony TCD-D7

DAT >CD Transferred Via Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF Coax >HHb CDR 800 PRO.
CD Masters Transferred With xACT 2.24 >WAV >FLAC
FLAC >WAV >Audacity (De-Amplify Countless Close-Proximity Hand Claps, Reduce Crowd Noise Hoots & Hollers, Repair Two Minor Left-Channel Dropouts, Minor Edits, Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

(Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post, FLAC, Tags, + Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

18th Row, Left

Disc I:

  1. Old Coot From Tennessee
  2. Bon Temps Roulet
  3. Well Well Well
  4. Catfood Sandwiches
  5. Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies
  6. Everywhere I Go
  7. Down The Road Tonight
  8. You And The Mona Lisa
  9. Dimming Of The Day
  10. Thing Called Love
  11. Shotgun Down The Avalanche
  12. Lost Soul
  13. The Barricades Of Heaven
  14. World in Motion

Disc II:

  1. I Believe I Am in Love With You
  2. Nick Of Time
  3. Band Intros
  4. The Facts About Jimmy
  5. Sunny Came Home
  6. A Night On The Town
  7. Bright Baby Blues
  8. Something To Talk About
  9. Diamond In The Rough
  10. I Can’t Make You Love Me
  11. The Pretender
  12. Just the Way It Is (Prelude)

Disc III:

  1. Just The Way It Is
  2. Love Sneaking Up On You
  3. Running On Empty
  4. Valley Road
  5. Polaroids
    [Medley]:
  6. (Just My Imagination) >
  7. (Too Busy Thinking ‘Bout My Baby) >
  8. (Reunited)
  9. Mercury Blues
  10. Load Out/Stay
  11. The End Of The Innocent

Encore:

  1. Black Muddy River

Oldneumanntapr Notes-
This was a fun show. David Lindley & Wally Ingram played four songs to open the show, and it just rolled on from there. Instead of separate sets from each artist, they would all play together and swap lead vocals. The show ran about 3.5 hours! The Santa Barbara County Bowl is a very intimate place to see shows, as it’s small (3,000 capacity) and nestled in the hills of Santa Barbara. The security is really tight there, and it took three of us to bring in my recording equipment. The security staff at the bowl, from what I’ve been told, are all off-duty SB County Sheriffs deputies, and they DO have the authority to arrest people on the spot, as apposed to most venue security who will either confiscate your batteries and blanks, or kick you out of the venue if you are caught taping.

It was difficult to record, not only because of the ever-present security staff, but also because the show started durning daylight hours. I wanted to record David Lindley & Wally Ingram, as they opened the show, but it’s really hard to stealth record in broad daylight.

I had a problem at the time with my Beyer MV100 microphone preamp because of a loose XLR input jack, so I had two channel drop outs on this recording that I had to repair. I later had the jack re-soldered, which fixed the problem. While I was at it, I also went in and reduced the over enthusiastic crowd noise wherever I could. I think it made a big difference.

During one song someone seated near me was trying to get everyone to stand and I didn’t want to comply so there is a brief moment of talking from this guy that I couldn’t completely remove. ‘Don’t you want to stand up?’ NO.

I remember that one of my friend Dave’s friends, a lady that I think worked at KOTR FM in Cambria (Not Carol Jo, who talked all the way through my Miles Davis Cal Poly recording in 1990), sat next to me while Dave was up front in a closer row. She dropped my binoculars onto the concrete floor, which I could have done without, but I think they didn’t come away with any damage.

I think mine is one of the better recordings from this mini tour, with only the final show at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington, that maybe a little better. That show was uploaded without any recording lineage, which is a pet peeve of mine, so I was unable to tell what gear was used to make the recording.

Doctor Who – The Enemy of the World

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Classic Doctor Who ran from 1963 to 1989. It included some 311 stories told over 695 episodes of television. The Doctor was portrayed by seven different actors. While I have watched every episode of the New Doctor Who series, I’ve not yet made it through all the classic stories.

I have seen at least a few stories from each Doctor, but I’ve always watched it fairly randomly – watching one story from this era and then another one from a different era with a different Doctor, etc.

They are now releasing complete seasons of the classic series on Blu-ray but for ages they released single stories on DVD. I reviewed a few of them for Cinema Sentries including this one starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor (and in this case the story’s central enemy).

I’ve come to love Troughton’s version of the Doctor, but this was the first time I’d seen him in the role and my opinion of him was not yet solidified. Anyway, you can read the review here.

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)

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I’m on record as loving a good slasher movie. I grew up in the 1980s and slashers were all the rage. I didn’t actually watch any of them in theatres and rarely saw any in their unedited forms on VHS. Mostly, I watched them on late-night, basic cable television. Which was probably the best way for my pubescent self to have seen them. With some of the sex and violence edited out for TV, my hormone-addled mind filled in the blanks with things far more sexy and gruesome than any of the films could possibly have produced.

I actually remember later in life watching some of those films and being disappointed with how little I had missed.

Friday the 13th and its many, many sequels are not good movies. They aren’t even particularly interesting slash flicks. But there is something about them that has excited horror hounds, including myself for decades.

This documentary covers everything you’d ever want to know about the franchise. It interviews nearly everyone involved in any of the films (or the television series) and breaks them all down into the minutest of details. For seven hours it does this. That’s more Jason Vorhees than anyone can handle.

Except me, apparently. I watched the entire thing and wrote a review about it. You can read that review here.

Cardinal Richelieu (1935) & Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! (1948)

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It is a wonderful, wild time to be a physical media fan. Streaming services seem more and more to be pushing the new in favor of the old. They spend billions of dollars making new movies and television shows while ignoring the incredible, wonderful, often beloved films in their catalog.

But there are numerous niche Blu-ray labels putting out incredible-looking, and supplementally loaded old (and often obscure) films. I love it.

A few years back I reviewed a couple of these old and very obscure films that had just come to DVD. The historical drama Cardinal Richelieu (1935) and comedy Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948) (best known now for being Marilyn Monroe’s debut) are not particularly good films, but I’m glad that got a true physical release.

You can read my full review here.

The Deep End (2001)

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I love crime thrillers but I’m the first to admit they aren’t always realistic. Detectives make unbelievable leaps of logic to solve the crime, and seemingly normal people suddenly turn into superheroes when they or their families are threatened.

The Deep End is a film that puts a normal, average housewife (played by the always wonderful Tilda Swinton) and then puts her into an extraordinary situation. But she doesn’t instantly become an amazing crime fighter, she behaves like a normal person would. Dealing with blackmailers – coming up with the cash they are asking for – becomes just another task on his long list of “to-dos” for the day.

It is a very good movie and you can read my full review here.

Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt & Don Henley – Avila Beach, CA (10/13/96)

Capps For Congress
10/13/96
Avila Beach Resort
Avila Beach, CA

8th Row Center: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By Oldneumanntapr

Jackson Browne

  1. I’m Alive
  2. Looking Into You
  3. Your Bright Baby Blues
  4. In the Shape Of A Heart
  5. For Everyman
  6. The Pretender
  7. The Barricades Of Heaven
  8. World in Motion (w/ Bonnie Raitt)

Bonnie Raitt

  1. Country Road
  2. Home
  3. Love Me Like A Man*
  4. Big Road*
  5. Shadow Of A Doubt
  6. Nick Of Time
  7. Kokomo Medley@
  8. My Opening Farewell@
  9. Thing Called Love@
  • w/Tom Ball On Harmonica
    @ w/Jackson Browne

Don Henley

  1. Through Your Hands
  2. Learn To Be Still
  3. I Can’t Tell You Why**
  4. Democracy
  5. It’s Not Easy Being Green
  6. Love Will Keep Us Alive**
  7. The Boys Of Summer
  8. Take It Easy***

Timothy B. Schmit Lead Vocal**
Jackson Browne Lead Vocal***

OldNeumanntapr Notes:

Capps For Congress benefit. The complete line-up was Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan, John Trudell & Bad Dog, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley.

To provide a bit of political history for this show, in 1996 Walter Capps was running for the 22nd District of California and this show in Avila Beach was a campaign fundraiser. Capps was once again running against Andrea Seastrand (she won the previous election and was based in the adjacent Shell Beach, so this show had an appropriate setting). Capps won the seat in November, but he sadly passed away in October 1997. His seat was held by his widow, Lois Capps, ever since when she won a 1997 special election (although her district is now known as the 24th District due to redistricting). The seat is now held Salud Carbajal.

For the Jackson Browne set, “I”m Alive” cuts in as he is playing his guitar. For the Don Henley set, “Through Your Hands” fades in before the first verse begins. There is some mic noise (mostly between songs) and there is occasional audience noise (talking, screaming, clapping along).

This show took place at the same venue where the Avila Beach Blues Festival was held every year until recently. I had friends who were volunteering at this show and they brought my blanket in for me and placed it front and center, about 8th row. I couldn’t ask for a better spot!

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Asleep at the Wheel – San Luis Obispo, CA (03/11/00)

Asleep At The Wheel
3/11/00
Recreation Center
California State Polytechnic University
San Luis Obispo, CA

FOB: (8th Row Center), Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7 DAT Master
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Master >WAV >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

  1. Cherokee Maiden
  2. Route 66
  3. Roly Poly
  4. Goin’ Away Party
  5. Big Ball’s In Cowtown
  6. Red River Valley
  7. Jumpin’ At The Woodside
  8. Georgia On My Mind
  9. House Of Blue Lights

Opened for Bob Dylan. You can download his set here.

OldNeumanntapr Notes-

This was the first time that I’d seen/recorded Asleep At The Wheel. They put on a good show and were a good opening act. This show has been traded individually a couple of times but never uploaded.

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Fargo (1996)

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I’ve talked before about how I went to see Fargo in the theater when it first came out. About how I went in blind, knowing nothing about it, and came out loving it. I saw it three times in the theater, bringing new friends each time.

When it came out on VHS I remember my local video store had this big cardboard cutout of the film. It had a tag, or maybe a critic quote on it stating that it was a really good thriller or some such thing. I remember being surprised because I thought of it as a comedy – a dark, pitch-black comedy, but a comedy nonetheless.

Of course, it has thriller elements, and that probably is its biggest genre. But I realize that the Coen Brothers have a warped sense of humor, one that perfectly fits mine.

I love that movie, and I still think it is hilarious. I picked up a Blu-ray of the film in 2014 and wrote a review for Cinema Sentries.

Bela Fleck – San Luis Obispo, CA (05/10/98)

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
5/10/98
Cuesta College Auditorium
San Luis Obispo, CA

Nakamichi CM-300s w/CP-1 Cardioid Capsules (On T-Bar)->Sony TCD-D7,(7th Row Center)
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.48
(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Disc I:

  1. Intro
  2. Zenergy
  3. Labyrinth
  4. Almost 12
  5. Huckleberry Row
  6. My Life *
  7. Throwdown At The Hoedown
  8. Futureman Solo
  9. Big Country

Disc II:

  1. Commonality
  2. Communication (no lyrics)
  3. Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo
  4. Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bela Solo)
  5. Shanti ~
  6. Over The Wall ~

Encore:

  1. Sinister Minister

~ Acoustic tracks, Vic on Cello & Futch on percussion box

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
Taping was allowed at this show but I asked not to bring in my microphone stand, so the Nakamichi’s had to go on a T-Bar and be hand held throughout the show. The old Cuesta College Auditorium had such great acoustics, having been built on the old campus during World War Two.
Sadly, it was deemed not to be worth retrofitting for earthquake standards and is slowly falling into decay. I included a photo that i took of the building in 2018.

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